Matt Helm

Where can I find the editor manual?

Yes, and those same companies don't ship a game manual that tells me that the editor manual is available online "now" when it isn't.

I'm working on my Age of Wonders Shadow Magic campaign while I wait for the bloody editor manual that should have been delivered to us already. I am beginning to lose patience with the jerkoffs at JoWood/Nival. Why are they so incompetent that they couldn't have the English translation ready when the English edition went on sale?

Another week come and gone without the manual. What is this weeks excuse?

When I try to run DataImport.exe I get an error. It fails to start because MSVCP71.dll was not found. Any idea how to fix this?

What's the latest news on the manual?

If you just want to raise the power level then double the ranges of all guns. Doubling only rifles will make the other weapons useless except in confined spaces.

I don't think that doubling the range of rifles is a good idea. With the maps as small as they are rifles will dominate the game even more than they do now. By increasing the range that much you pretty much give riflemen the ability to pick apart any foe not armed with a rifle long before the enemy can close to an effective range.

Any plans to fix up the Allied uniforms?

I take 2-3 PKs with me and use them as tanks, the PzB 41 cannon is useful for taking down enemy PKs.

Not only can you sometimes not see them, apparently they don't see you sometimes at the same time. I was kidnapping the head of a factory. I entered the room, shot him, then sent in my medic to carry him out. The enemy suddenly appeared and finally reacted by killing the medic. When I reloaded I moved into the room again and this time saw the red sillouette and the ear icon. No matter what I did or where I stood I couldn't see him, but again when I ended my turn he appeared and shot me. As someone above suggested, I used a grenade to resolve this problem.

Frankly, there are a lot of players who got sick and tired of the whining and moaning from the supposedly professional mercenaries in JA2. I am just as glad that S2 troopers have less to say.

It looks like a good presentation, given, of course, that I can't actually read it.

The S2 editor looks a little obscure, but not too bad. I'm an editor junkie (Unlimited Adventures, All HOMM, All AoW, NWN, Delta Force BHD, JA2, and some I have probably forgotten) and the S2 editor looks like it has serious potential. Just being able to cut and paste a building from one map to another is a great feature. BTW, anyone know anything about the scripting language in the S2 editor (Lua?)? Is it a C++ variant?

Good to hear, I'm staying away from the editor because I hate experiementing. I've been working on a design document for my campaign instead so I will have most of it laid out on paper when I get the editor manual.

Quote from a gaming satire: "I get 25 xp for sewing up my own wounds? I'm ripping those babies out and sewing them up again!"

In my Fallout 44 campaign I'd like to have the player meet and recruit squaddies in the field. From what I have seen in the rescue missions in S2 I can meet and recruit a temporary squaddie, is there any way to set them so they stay with the squad permenantly?

My upcoming mod is new campaign: Things to Come campaign/The Fall of Civilization (aka Fallout 44) (Allied Campaign) WWII went badly for everyone. Civilization has collapsed from England all the way east to China because of the accumulated damage to the infrastructure, massive casualties, and a worldwide influenza epidemic. After Pearl Harbour the Japanese managed to land an expeditionary force near Santa Barbara, it caused a great deal of destruction and severely damaged the morale of the Americans before it was exterminated by the U.S. Army. The Pacific War was in full swing when the epidemic hit and elements of the US Marines and Japanese Army are stranded all over the Pacific. England was shattered with missiles and invaded but the British remained defiant, the Germans were driven back but when petrol ran out and things fell apart some German soldiers were stranded, they hold Sussex and are based out of Brighton. London fell to the Germans but was abandoned when they retreated back to the coast. The city is mostly deserted now, what is left of the government and royalty is in Liverpool. The Germans detonated two atomic bombs on the Eastern Front to cover their retreat. They were untested and the Germans were not prepared for the level of destruction. Casualties were extreme on both sides. The Americans retaliated by dropping an atomic bomb on Berlin Western and Eastern Europe are in chaos with armies disintegrating into competing war bands and the epidemic scything through the world's population. Millions are dying. The player is in a group of people in England who hide in a deep and extensive bunker underground to wait for the epidemic to pass. Unfortunately the Plague breaks out due to the fall of civilization and they have to stay in the bunker for a year. When the player emerges the world is mostly in ruins. Initial resources are limited. Initially the player will have a poor selection of weapons. Handguns, knives, and a few grenades will be all at the start. The first mission will be to get to the bunker; it is hidden in Sussex under an abandoned manor house. The player will have to enter an area held by stranded Germans and find the bunker entrance. I'm still deciding what changes to the game rules I will make. I will probably include the AP costs for inventory changes.

I suppose that the more buildings and such that are on the map, the worse a large area map will run.

I see, thanks. The original post says "object tree", that is what threw me off the track.

I'm noticing that the maps in S2 are a bit small. What is the practical maximum size for a S2 map?

I have followed the steps listed at the beginning of the thread but, alas, I am having problems. My centre screen turns all black after I reate a new item, I don't get any option to set any size variables, and the new layer button doesn't seem to do anything. Any idea what I am doing wrong here?